Equalizing device for car-trucks.



No. 851,371. PATENTBD APR. 23, 1907.

A. E. OSTRANDER.

EQUALIZING DEVICE FOR GAR TRUCKS.

APPLICATION FILED FBB.131907.

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ALLEN n. OSTR'ANDER, or PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO AMERL CAN OAR& FOUNDRY COMPANY, or s'r. Louis, Missonai', A CORPORA- TION OF NEWJERSEY.

EQUALIZIVNG DEVICE FOR CAR-TRUCKS.

' Patented Annlication fil Pobruary l3, 1907. Serial No.. 357,162.

-No; 851,371. Specification of Letters Patent. April 23, 1907.

1' wh m i m y 00711061711: Iclaim as new and desire to" secure by Let-Be it known that I,' ALLEN E. OSTRANDER, ters Patent is: acitizen of theUnited States, residing at l. A car truck comprising side frames hav-Paterson,'-New Jersey, have invented a cering tain new and usefulImprovement in Equalizing Devices for Car-Trucks, of which the ifollowing is a full, clear, and exact descripti0n, such as .Will enableothers skilled in the artto which it appertains to make and fusethesame, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, forming partof this specification, in which- .Figure 1 is a side elevation of atruck proequa nal boxes, coiled springs I the outer ends of said barsand .the side frames of the truck, a lever arranged at each side of thetruck and adapted to oscillate in a vertical plane, and coiled springsinter- .posed between the opposite ends of said lever and the inner endsof said equalizer bars; substantially as described.

2. A car truck comprising side frames having pedestals for receivingjournal boxes, equa izer bars adapted to nal boxes, coiled springsinterposed between the outer ends of Sitld' frames of the truck, a leverarranged at each side of the truck and'provided on its upper side with alug, a bearing secured to the side framev and-engagin said lug, membersinterpose between the opposite ends of said lever and the inner ends ofthe equalizer bars; substantially as described.

3. A car truc vided with boxes, equalizer bars fulcrumed on said journalboxes and'having their ends extending downwardly, yieldingdevic'esinterposed between the outer ends of said bars and' the truck frame,levers arrangedat each side of the truck frame and fulcrumed' midwaytheir izerbars adapted to rest on said jour in accordance with myinvention, and Fig. 2 is an enlarged cross sectional view of the truckshown in Fig. 1. i

This-invention relates to equalizing de- Referring to the drawings, 1designates the side frames of a car truck, and 2 are the equalizer barsor levers that are fulcrumed, on the journal boxes 3 mounted in thepedes tals 1*, the opposite ends of said levers extending downwardlyfrom the middle pork comprising a frame proizer bar 2 is provided withthat supports a coiled spring 5 having its upper endengaing'a'spring-seat 6 fastened to the side frame of the truck. -A lever 7is arranged at each side of the truck and each a spring-seat 4spring-seats 8 that recelve the upper ends of coiled springs 9 which aresupported by spring-seats ilO on the inner ends of -the equalizer bars2. At the middle of the lever 7 alug 11, which engages a bearing 12depending from the side frame of the truck, said lug forming the fulcrumof said lever. A device of this description not only forms a veryeflicient means for equalizing the bearing of the truck frame on thejournal posite ends of said levers and the inner ends stantially asdescribed.

In testimon whereofI hereunto affix my signature in t epres'ence of twowitnesses, this 6th day of February, 1907. i

. LLEN OSTRANDER.

boxes of the car axles, but isalso strong and Witnesses: of simpleconstruction. 'R. G. J FFERY, Having thus described my invention, whatF. E. PERRY.

pedestals for receiving journal boxes,

interposed between,

bars and the side 2 rest on said jourand yielding pedestals forreceivingjournalends, and springs interposed between the opof the equalizerbarsadjacent thereto; su b

